Today Wayne Turmel talks with Management Craft’s Lisa Haneberg about her new book, Hip and Sage. We also give a little love to Ning and King George the III. Let’s see how many Google/Bing searches have those two words in the same sentence. Always breaking new ground
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Lisa Haneberg retruns for yet more good conversation and laughs.
Don’t forget to get a copy of the Cranky Middle Manager book of quotes for your team or the manager who needs a laugh!
Show Notes
0:00 Welcome to the show, gang. This is the show if you ever feel like you used to be good at the job and were once the smartest and/or youngest person in the room. Lisa Haneberg has a book for what ails you. Also, we dedicate the show to King George III of England. Give him a little love this July 4th.
3:06 The quote of the week is from Voltaire. Are you wiser, or just too old and tired to scandalize anyone?
4:50 You can join the Cranky Middle Manager family any number of ways. The word for this kind of contact by the way is tweetfacelinkblogging. It’s a verb. Look it up. Here’s how to reach me on ,Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, by the way.
5:30 Welcome back Lisa Haneberg, author of Hip and Sage: Staying Smart, Cool and Competitive in the Workplace. Ever feel like everyone knows stuff you don’t? You’re not alone. Getting old isn’t great, but there’s only one alternative and let’s assume that’s not an option. The biggest thing most of us have to deal with is how we communicate. Do we need to train the kids to communicate and tolerate meetings like us or do we have to think about what and how we talk to them?
8:47 What is hip? What is sage? Hip is being open to the possibilities of the new. Sage is the wisdom as a leader and how we use all that stuff we try. Here’s the good news, not everyone needs to Twitter. You all need to know what the heck it is. That’s the difference. Here’s my take on Twitter: watching what was going on with Iran was cool. There are also morons who don’t deserve to be part of the conversation.
12:57 Is texting and the rest dumbing down the language or evolving it? Should we complain about the bad spelling or concentrate on the content and speed? Should we teach people to endure bad meetings or quit holding useless meetings?
16:04 You can worry so much about not “wasting time” that we lose the human connections that make relationships work. One of the things that helps is sites like Ning. Two Ning sites you should check out:
The Employee Engagement Network
Management Central
Seriously, check them out and learn the potential. If the company won’t pay for collaboration tools, these are free and they work.
Lisa says to ignore the IT department. She said it. I don’t want the lawsuits.
22:10 I wouldn’t admit it to Lisa but she’s my hero on this stuff. She tells us about a couple of other tools including RSS feeds and a cool site called Wetpaint.
Resources
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